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PNS Daily Newscast - March 21, 2019

The nation’s acting Defense Secretary is under investigation for promoting Boeing, his former employer. Also on the Thursday rundown: The Trump administration’s spending blueprint being called a “bully budget.” Plus, a call for the feds to protect consumers from abusive lenders.

At the same time, new research by the Economic Policy Institute reveals SNAP has helped lift 2.2 million children out of poverty in the U.S.

Molly McCloskey, director of Share Our Strength's Maryland No Kid Hungry Campaign, says those cuts, plus a proposal in the House to slash SNAP funding by $40 billion, are especially worrisome.

"I have to tell you it's a bit frightening at this time when we're looking at potential SNAP funding cuts in Congress to contrast that with the data of this report," she says.

Members of Congress are back in their home districts this month, and could take up the SNAP cuts as part of the Farm Bill in September.

McCloskey hopes Marylanders will let their lawmakers know how important the food assistance is, not only for hundreds of thousands of families, but also for businesses in the community where they buy food.

She says the news could, and should, be a game-changer in congressional debates about the future of food assistance programs.

"It should be appealing in a bi-partisan way,” she adds, “because when families move out of poverty we all progress as a nation."